Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

Can't remember what song it is, but he played the 5 chord (B7)using all 6 strings, thus sounding an E as the lowest note of the chord. WRONG!

 

[G-Dog]

There's a story in our family that gets retold every so often: My Dad, who was a big band sax man, asked me "What's with this Bob Dylan cat?" I didn't have an answer. Still don't.

I think his voice just fit the folkie protest songs so well that he sounded like he knew his stuff. But everything else he sings just grates on my nerves. There's a reason he won the Nobel prize for literature, and not music!
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[notJaco]

Can't remember what song it is, but he played the 5 chord (B7)using all 6 strings, thus sounding an E as the lowest note of the chord. WRONG!

Whadaya mean wrong? He wrote it and that is the way the song goes.
"There are no wrong notes, some are just more right than others" -Thelonious Monk.

 

[gtmalone]

Prayers and good vibes sent.

Have you looked into hiring a caretaker to drive him to his treatments, and checking in on him, when needed? Many services can be paid by Medicare.

My wife was planning on staying with him and taking him to Memphis but those trips are just too much for him. He has a nephew who can take him to the closer place if that is an option. He has a person through a local help agency that comes 2-3 times a week to do stuff around the house and run errands for him when needed. He still drives himself for errands and local doc visits.

 

[gtmalone]

One of the better things about being retired is that I have the time to read the posts in the proper order. And I still will give an answer that doesn't fit or has already been given. Oops!

Or not read any of them and still reply. My preferred method.

 

[Deeper Texan]

I can't remember where I read it, but Woodie Guthrie's widow, gave an interview, in which she said Dylan tried to imitate Guthrie's voice. But that by the time Dylan met him, Guthrie was in the latter stages, of Huntington's disease, and his voice would rise and fall dramatically, when he spoke or sang. She said it pained her, to hear Dylan, because Guthrie's pre disease voice was very stable, but that Dylan, thought the pitch he heard was normal.

 

[gtmalone]

After mowing the lawn in advance of yet more rain, I decided to relax in a shady spot and dunk a worm or two. Ended up conjuring a nice constellation of sunfish. Battling bluegill on an ultralight is my kind of fun.

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I love how the one on the lower left appears to be emitting beams from its eye.

Lots of fun catching those on ultra light gear!

 

[G-Dog]

Can't remember what song it is, but he played the 5 chord (B7)using all 6 strings, thus sounding an E as the lowest note of the chord. WRONG!

Maybe he intended it to be an Emaj9sus instead of a B7. That's what I always do when I play it. Follow me for more "interesting" chord substitutions.
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[notJaco]

Maybe he intended it to be an Emaj9sus instead of a B7. That's what I always do when I play it. Follow me for more "interesting" chord substitutions.
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I was gonna say, it just got misinterpreted as a V7 chord.

 

[notJaco]

Whadaya mean wrong? He wrote it and that is the way the song goes.
"There are no wrong notes, some are just more right than others" -Thelonious Monk.

I gotta laugh...I heard a few tunes by Monk on SiriusXM Real Jazz the other day and it sounds like he just makes a fist and bangs it around on the keyboard sometimes. it's BRILLIANT!

 

[G-Dog]

I can't remember where I read it, but Woodie Guthrie's widow, gave an interview, in which she said Dylan tried to imitate Guthrie's voice. But that by the time Dylan met him, Guthrie was in the latter stages, of Huntington's disease, and his voice would rise and fall dramatically, when he spoke or sang. She said it pained her, to hear Dylan, because Guthrie's pre disease voice was very stable, but that Dylan, thought the pitch he heard was normal.

I was gonna say, it just got misinterpreted as a V chord.

It's all in the "voicing".
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[GwenOnBass]

Best Bob Dylan anecdote:

 

[gtmalone]

I used to drop by a fly fishing shop. Everything in there was pretty expensive. A lot of custom options for rods, reels, and line. Tying the flies involves a lot of gear and fancy parts. There seems to be a whole culture that goes with it.

You can get into it for not much money. You don't need bamboo rods and expensive reels or tie your own flies. A decent fiberglass rod will do the trick. My dad bought me a Browning fiberglass rod for Xmas one year. I was just getting started with fly fishing so went to a shop to get reel and line. I brought the rod with me. The guy at the shop looked at the rod and said "Oh, a foam grip. Hmmmph." I didn't go back to the shop after that.

I have my Dad's fly rod and reel now. Both are '50s vintage. The rod is a Shakespeare 8' 6" fiberglass 8-weight with a cork (thank god!) grip. The reel is a South Bend Oren-o-Matic Model D autowind and still works like new. I suspect the autowind would get "comments" - lol. The line is the same one my Dad used his whole life and still in great shape. I loved to watch my Dad fish with it. He seldom used any other rod/reel. He didn't do the traditional style. He had a side arm method and could flip the line pretty much anywhere he wanted it even under overhanging trees.

 

[gtmalone]

I enjoyed fishing generally, but once my dad taught me to fly fish I couldn't get enough. I eventually came to enjoy it less after Mom and Dad moved to Florida when Dad retired BECAUSE THAT'S THE LAW. (Seinfeld)

Fly tying, to me, is more a hobby than anything else. There can be a good bit of cork-sniffery associated with fly fishing. But there are scads of perfectly serviceable fly rods, reels and flies you can buy cheaply. The fish don't know how much you spent on your gear.

cork-sniffery - I like that.

 

[gtmalone]

Can't remember what song it is, but he played the 5 chord (B7)using all 6 strings, thus sounding an E as the lowest note of the chord. WRONG!

That gets you a sus chord but sounds terrible with the fourth on the bottom and the third should be omitted on a sus. But if it's what he wanted, so be it, but I don't have to like it.

It would work as a pedal tone in a ii-V-I in A resolving to the A. Pedal the five of the I chord over the ii-V part.

 

[gtmalone]

Speaking of GOFs...

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[GwenOnBass]

Looks like live Bob Dylan as bait catches a whole lot of
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GoFs

 

[Greywoulf]

Folkies have long memories. Electric helped doom their music, Dylan was a focal point that helped that happen.
Also, Bob was marketed as an idealist, singing for the causes of common people through the folk protest movement, like Woodie. By accepting a Fender endorsement, he sold out to the man.

At my UU church we regularly sell out (pre-Covid and hopefully soon again) a good sized room to fans who come to see and hear folk artists, who BTW would all be quite surprised to hear that their music has been doomed by electric instruments... (Or by Dylan??? Are you serious?) New modern folk artists use whatever instruments they damn well please (geez, some even use Rickenbackers!) as they have confidence in their talent and abilities and also in the maturity of their audiences.

I still say that degrading hard working performers because they don't live up to one's foolishly idealistic expectations of them is immature. If you don't like what they're doing you're always free to leave and go elsewhere to be a fanboy.
Greywoulf

 

[Winslow]

Looks like live Bob Dylan as bait catches a whole lot of
uh
GoFs

:: old man yells at cloud meme ::

 

[gtmalone]

Great songwriting. His voice was just a hard thing to get over. The two songs I most like for him are Lay Lady Lay and Positively 4th Street.

Geddy Lee falls into that category for me. On a few tunes he's okay. My opinions only. Feel free to disagree but you're wrong. Love the music! There are a few videos of Neal Peart playing the drums along with tracks. What a great player! So sad to have lost him.

Someone reposted this video. It's definitely worth watching.